Sorry for the long overdue nature of this update. My hubby took time off for the 4th giving him essentially a five day weekend. Of course, he ended up sick for the entire time and I ended up sick towards the end of it. So finding time and motivation has been a little difficult :( .
July 2, 2011 a big storm moved through! They had predicted rain for us, but nothing like this!
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| Hail falling in front of our house. |
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| A picture of the melting hail. |
The wind was blowing rain and hail so hard at points that we couldn't see out our front door! The hail was on average golf ball size. Of course, not thinking fast enough or of pictures, I didn't grab my camera until the worst of the storm was over. Half way through the storm we went out and tried to do save work on the garden. All of our potato and zucchini plants were flattened to the ground. Thankfully we had just put cages around our tomatoes and the honeydew so those were a bit more protected.
Here are some pictures of the damage from the storm:
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| Our onions were pummeled and many lost shoots to the storm like this one did. |
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| The types of holes the hail left in the cucumber leaves. |
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| You can see some of the holes in the zucchini leaves. The zucchinis had to be tied up to support them. |
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| There were downed branches everywhere when we drove around. Here's one at a local gas station. |
There were whole sections of town without power (thankfully we missed that part) but some people are still cleaning up the mess this storm made! There were no tornadoes in our area, but sirens did go off for other counties near us I believe.
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| The sky took on a weird butter/green color after the storm. |
After the storm the sky was a weird butter/green mix color and everything was cast in this creepy light. My husband loved it because he said it felt like special effects. As night fell, another part of the storm moved over us (but didn't hit us) so we got quite the lightening show for once!
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| Lightening from that night. |
Other than illness our long weekend was good. We spent a lot of time together. We did light fireworks off in the backyard (because what would the 4th be if you didn't?) My husband bought some mammoth smoke bombs for the larp (because they are really long smoke bombs) and decided to test them. He is a fireworks pro and has done this man times, but as he lit it and threw it, the smoke bomb (let me repeat smoke bomb) exploded and set his clothes on fire. Thankfully he was not hurt he just lost a shirt and a pair of shorts. (they were new, but at least he is okay, right?) The rest of the evening went smoothly.
With us being sick and not much to do, I did get to finish my quilt! Now I've started my husbands. I'll be posting more details on that at my crafting blog http://somethingcraftythiswaycomes.blogspot.com/
Here are some pretty fireworks to leave you all with! Until I feel better and take pictures of the garden to update with, be safe and have fun :)
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| Fountain Fireworks |
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